Trump-linked World Liberty says WorldClaw is independent after questions over AI model access

World Liberty Financial told CoinDesk that it does not own or operate AI aggregator company WorldClaw and has no control over which artificial-intelligence models the platform offers, but declined to detail any financial relationship it may have with the company.

Reuters reported on World Liberty's links to WorldClaw and on the availability of Chinese-developed models through the platform on Monday, several of which come from companies facing U.S. national-security scrutiny. But representatives told CoinDesk the two are separate businesses.

"WorldClaw is an independent company, not owned or operated by World Liberty Financial," said David Wachsman, World Liberty's spokesman. "Like many projects in the ecosystem, it uses $USD1 as a payment rail."

Wachsman declined to say whether World Liberty or an affiliate holds equity in WorldClaw, financed the company, receives licensing fees or shares in its revenue.

Donald Trump Jr. promoted WorldClaw in an X post when it debuted in May, though overall usage of the project is not widely known.

World Liberty is the crypto venture co-founded by the Trump family, and issues $USD1, a dollar-pegged stablecoin with billions in circulation. The Trump family owns 38% of World Liberty and has made more than $1.4 billion from sales of its tokens, according to Reuters, the largest share of $2.3 billion in family crypto earnings.

WorldClaw is a Hong Kong company that sells developers access to dozens of AI models through a single service called WorldRouter. Rather than opening separate accounts with each AI provider, a developer uses one gateway. It lists models from U.S. companies including OpenAI and Anthropic alongside products from Chinese developers such as Alibaba, DeepSeek, Moonshot, MiniMax and Zhipu.

WorldClaw customers can pay for model access in $USD1, and some plans can be reached by locking $WLFI tokens. $USD1 is the fifth-largest dollar-backed stablecoin as of Tuesday, with $4 billion in circulation, according to CoinGecko data.

$USD1 turns over about $700 million in a typical day, half of it swapped against Tether's USDT, the largest stablecoin. Little of that volume represents the token being spent on goods or services.

WorldClaw's own terms describe World Liberty's role as limited, saying WorldClaw alone provides the service, that World Liberty does not manage or control its operations, and that the relationship runs through the licensing of certain trademarks.